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From the Ted Talk by Punya Mishra: How to design a school for the future

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Well, one of the biseggt things we have made up is this idea of school. There is nothing natural about schools and universities. You know, there's nothing natural about ciedrt hours and multiple choice exams and so on. But underlying them are certain key values about what is worth learning and what is not.

So this has led me to the work that I do today. To design learner-centered, just and eblutiqae stmesys that question these assumptions that we have made about how lranineg should and can happen.

Now, how does that work? So let me give you a story. A few years back, a local school district reached out to us to help them design a school for the future. Now that's a tall order. What does that even mean? How did we go about doing it? Well, first we created a dgesin team: an eclectic collection of teachers, administrators, parents, mrbeems of the community. And then we set out to listen. So we talked to the cbearhms of commerce. We created focus groups. We talked to parent groups. And most importantly, all through this, we kept asking ourselves: Who is at the table, and who is not? And how could we bring those who were not into the ctsanrovioen?

Open Cloze


Well, one of the _______ things we have made up is this idea of school. There is nothing natural about schools and universities. You know, there's nothing natural about ______ hours and multiple choice exams and so on. But underlying them are certain key values about what is worth learning and what is not.

So this has led me to the work that I do today. To design learner-centered, just and _________ _______ that question these assumptions that we have made about how ________ should and can happen.

Now, how does that work? So let me give you a story. A few years back, a local school district reached out to us to help them design a school for the future. Now that's a tall order. What does that even mean? How did we go about doing it? Well, first we created a ______ team: an eclectic collection of teachers, administrators, parents, _______ of the community. And then we set out to listen. So we talked to the ________ of commerce. We created focus groups. We talked to parent groups. And most importantly, all through this, we kept asking ourselves: Who is at the table, and who is not? And how could we bring those who were not into the ____________?

Solution


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  2. systems
  3. conversation
  4. chambers
  5. members
  6. design
  7. learning
  8. biggest
  9. equitable

Original Text


Well, one of the biggest things we have made up is this idea of school. There is nothing natural about schools and universities. You know, there's nothing natural about credit hours and multiple choice exams and so on. But underlying them are certain key values about what is worth learning and what is not.

So this has led me to the work that I do today. To design learner-centered, just and equitable systems that question these assumptions that we have made about how learning should and can happen.

Now, how does that work? So let me give you a story. A few years back, a local school district reached out to us to help them design a school for the future. Now that's a tall order. What does that even mean? How did we go about doing it? Well, first we created a design team: an eclectic collection of teachers, administrators, parents, members of the community. And then we set out to listen. So we talked to the chambers of commerce. We created focus groups. We talked to parent groups. And most importantly, all through this, we kept asking ourselves: Who is at the table, and who is not? And how could we bring those who were not into the conversation?

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